{"id":14430,"date":"2026-01-20T20:28:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/?p=14430"},"modified":"2026-01-20T20:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:28:23","slug":"statistics-canada-reports-a-merchandise-trade-deficit-of-583-million-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/statistics-canada-reports-a-merchandise-trade-deficit-of-583-million-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics Canada reports a merchandise trade deficit of $583 million in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada announced that Canada&#8217;s merchandise imports increased 3.4% in October, while exports were up 2.1%. As a result, Canada&#8217;s merchandise trade balance with the world went from a small surplus of $243 million in September to a deficit of $583 million in October.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Agency highlights that the rise in imports follow a drop of 4.3% in September. Overall, gains were observed in 8 of the 11 product sections.<\/p>\n<p>Imports of electronic and electrical equipment and parts were up 10.2% and imports of metal and non-metallic mineral products were up 9.5%. Imports of industrial machinery, equipment and parts were up 5.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Despite an overall increase, exports in 6 of the 11 product sections decreased in October. As was the case in September, exports of unwrought gold, silver, and platinum group metals, and their alloys increased the most in October.<\/p>\n<p>Following three consecutive monthly declines, imports from the United States increased 5.3% in October. Meanwhile, exports to the United States were down 3.4%, partly because of lower exports of aircraft and unwrought gold. Exports to the United States were down 4.1% in the first 10 months of 2025 compared with the same period in 2024. Canada&#8217;s trade surplus with the United States narrowed from $8.4 billion in September to $4.8 billion in October.<\/p>\n<p>Exports to countries other than the United States rose 15.6% to reach a record high in October following an increase of 11.8% in September. Higher exports to the United Kingdom (gold) and China (crude oil) contributed the most to this growth. Meanwhile, imports from countries other than the United States edged up 0.6% in October. Higher imports from China (smartphones) and Peru (gold) were partially offset by lower imports from Belgium (pharmaceutical products) and Australia (mineral products). Canada&#8217;s trade deficit with countries other than the United States narrowed from $8.1 billion in September to $5.4 billion in October. This was the lowest deficit since January 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada announced that Canada&#8217;s merchandise imports increased 3.4% in October, while exports were up 2.1%. As a result, Canada&#8217;s merchandise trade balance with the world went from a small surplus of $243 million in September to a deficit of $583 million in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":13513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[147],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-14430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-custom-brokerage","tag-statistics-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14431,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14430\/revisions\/14431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14430"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=14430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}